Stop Worrying About Global Warming
The approaching Nuclear Winter will quickly cool things down
The dinosaurs had a really good run.
165 Million years is nothing to sneeze at. Homo Sapiens, on the other hand, have been around for maybe 300,000 years. And that’s being generous. While we, the humans, evolved biologically back then, one can argue that we didn’t come into our own until much more recently. The defining reliance on our technology may go back 10 or 20,000 years.
But even using the larger number, we’re still a speck compared to the dinosaurs. Humans have about 0.2% of the time span on earth that the dinosaurs can claim. We’ve got a long way to go to be significant.
And it’s not looking good.
The problem is intelligence.
For an individual, intelligence is often a survival characteristic. When Ogg saw the sandstorm approaching, he decided to take shelter before it arrived, and survived. Melani learned the difference between edible and poisonous mushrooms and survived. When Anarak lashed a rock to his club, he repelled the Neanderthals and survived.
But that club has become a problem. We humans have used our intelligence to create ever-better clubs. In fact, our clubs have become so good, we’re now capable of erasing ourselves altogether.
It’s a miracle we haven’t annihilated ourselves already.
While intelligence is quite probably an asset for individual survival, it’s pretty clearly not the case for the species. Self-centered application of intelligence is anathema for the survival of the species.
Even with glimpses of a higher application of intelligence where humans create a more livable and self-sustaining world, we choose warped self-interest that will quite likely result in our extinction. If the nuclear clubs don’t get us, the changing climate will. Or some viral attacker cooked up in a lab somewhere. Or intelligent machines understanding our threat to their survival. Or little details like ecological collapse. Do you enjoy eating kelp?
But there is still hope. Careful analysis of social media points out that we’re getting dumber all the time. It becomes apparent that soon we will be as dumb as stones.
And stones have been around forever.
